Relocation Services

This is a new venture being brought to you, but by no means an inexperienced one. Terry and Bernadette have been holding re-locators hands for a number of years now and have successfully resettled many people here in Turkey.

We both appreciate the trepidation felt by many and will do all we can to ease that. A foreign country has many challenges which at times can seem insurmountable for the inexperienced. We aim to make our knowledge and skills available to you so you don't feel like you are floundering.

Our relocation services will include finding the best removal companies for your needs, help with importing pets and necessary documentation, we will help you arrange your visas, tax numbers, bank accounts, insurances, schools where needed, utility connection, translations, legal advisors where required and guide you through the process needed to set up a business, we will also help you through the often complex matter of purchasing a vehicle. If you the client require, we will also help with furniture buying.

Because everyone's needs will be different we will take that into account when determining fees.

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Property Locators 

Not everyone has the time or ability to source suitable properties (by this we mean villas, apartments, land, and commercial premises). It's all well and good viewing properties online but when you get here you may find they've either been sold or are something so very different from what you had in mind. It can be an expensive trip to find the villa you set your heart on is dripping with damp, has holes in the roof or needs major structural works.

You may also not feel confident in the barter system so end up paying over the odds.

We will provide a viewing and reporting service for you. Photographs will be taken and a report sent to you with an overview of the area and what amenities are available. Included will be any site fees and if there are extras for the likes of communal pool building which you may be liable for but unaware of. Reports will cost £200 per property. If a number of properties require reports within the same vicinity a reduction will be applied.

If you want to go ahead and purchase a property we will assist in dealings with agents, source legal advisors and translators and negotiate on your behalf to get you the best possible price. Our fee for this service will be 15% of the negotiated discount or 1% of the purchase price, whichever is the greater.

Before proceeding a non refundable deposit will be taken and deducted from our final bill.

Long Term Renting

We will source suitable properties for long term renting, fees for this will be the equivalent of one months rent.

Rentals long term in Turkey are generally 6 or 12 month contracts with 3 months advance rents. Agents usually take 1 months rental in commissions.

Testimonials

3 years ago my husband and i decided to buy a home abroad, after looking around the internet we decided on turkey, having never been there before i did a lot of research at which time i came across terry and turkeyvilla, terry offered us sound advice, answered any questions we had,and even booked our hotel room for us, and once we got to turkey, picked us up from the hotel, took us around,and spent a whole day with us even babysitting our 2 1/2 yr old whilst we were still property searching, i can honestly say that without terry and turkeyvilla we would not have found the confidence to buy,we are indebted to her and turkeyvilla, in 2008 we are moving to turkey we love it so much, and will certainly be relying on terrys services again. if you are venturing into the unknown as we were, we could not recommend terry highly enough. julia, matt and jacob bruno

We were living in Qatar, had been in the Arabian Gulf for over 20 years, had never been to Turkey before but had seen a property (that we eventually bought) on the internet. The agent that we used turned out to be one on the recommended list of Turkey Villa.
Knowing nothing about Turkey I joined the TV Forum to get some idea of what it was like to live in Turkey and later about moving to Turkey.
The information forthcoming was both useful and re-assuring.
This applied particularly to the shipping of household effects and the associated difficulties that had been faced by others.
One of the members even went so far as to arrange for shipping companies to visit the house in the UK (we had by then left Qatar) and give quotes for shipping freight.
The member also advised that we use a clearing agent in Turkey, advise them that we wished to import the freight permanently, give power of attorney to them and specific actions to take in terms of shipping list together with a list of what not to bring.
We followed that advice and subsequently avoided the pitfalls that other people had fallen into including hours (in some cases days)spent on the dock in Izmir.
Without Turkey Villa we would have struggled in  many ways and now endeavour to pass on tips to other people in a position similar to that which we were in. Graham

I purchased my property in Cagkent in July of 2006 ,I already have a property in Calis so i was not new to buying property in Turkey and as i was buying privately of course i used a well known solicitor. The proccess which should have been straight forward took until October last year due in part to a slow solicitor and a prat of a seller.
I met Bernie in September of 2006 and i wish i had met her before as it would have saved me a lot of time and worry.
She has excellent contacts with good solicitors a good friend in the tapu office and great relationship with officials in the Belediye.(she should have she worked for them) This is not hearsay as i was with her when she was battling for our sitesi of which other people are still trying to take credit for.
I also have been down to the tapu office where she has gotten tapus for half the price they had been quoted by their "friends".
This woman is worth her weight in gold. Ron and Sue

This testimonial is in regard to our move to Turkey and the steps leading up to it.

 After many years of holidays it Turgutreis we decided to investigate the possibility of moving to Turkey full time. On checking out many sites and forums regarding living in Turkey we settled on Turkeyvilla as being the one most relevant to our needs. It proved to be a fortunate decision as we learned so much from the site, both positive and negative. This allowed us to balance the pros and cons of the move and arrive at decision that was right for us. That decision was to make the move and we now live for the most of the year in Gumusluk.  In the 18 months since we moved we have grown to appreciate our new life and have no regrets about our decision.

We both are of the opinion that had we not spent the time we did on the Turkeyvilla site then we would have been in no way prepared for the move. This most likely would have led us into situations we were better avoiding, in this case to be forewarned is to be forearmed worked ever so well for us. Robert & Sue Tobin

Delighted to add my piece. You both have so much experience of all matters relating to Turkey and the Turkish way of life, that anyone who uses your services can only benefit. Bernie has not only been a great friend, but also an honest, straightforward business person who not only treats everyone with kindness and decency, but also generosity of time and humour, which believe me, sometimes is vital. John and Judith

Further relocation specific references to follow.